Ramunas Navardauskas, the quiet first year pro who has been Tyler’s shepard for a lot of the year and for the Tour has been in charge of leading the group on the flats and making sure Tyler gets up the mountains before the time cut.
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Team Garmin-Barracuda of U.S. celebrates on the podium as the first in team classification with the director of the 92nd Volta a Catalunya cycling race Ruben Peris (R) in Barcelona March 25, 2012. (via Photo from Reuters Pictures)
One of my favorite MFS 2012 images.
Location: Boise, ID
Date: 31 January 2012
Time: 10:23 AM
Team Exergy Sponsor CampBefore we go any further, I almost forgot to discuss just why it is so important to stretch and massage. 1) It provides an opportunity to check-in with your body: what is tight? What needs attention? 2) When without the assistance of a massage therapist, regular massage helps maintain fascia-sheath health and decreases the likelihood of pulled muscles. This regular care and attention also promotes muscular elasticity for greater recruitment, power and ultimately performance. 3) Most importantly however, a ‘recovery’ routine should include stretching and massage as it increases the blood flow to the damaged area, thereby increasing the speed at which the body can rebuild exercise-induced micro-muscle fiber tears and flush out toxins.—Ben Chaddock, Team Exergy
Team Training Camp, 2012 by Team Garmin-Barracuda on Flickr.
Haussler, taken from Castelli’s site. He’s using the Diluvio gloves, great for the wet horrible conditions that can blow in from the North Sea to form the hard men, The Flandriens, The Flahutes, the riders who we love to watch.
If you are in PDX next Friday stop by and throw down some cash for Alpenrose Velodrome.
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